-academic obstacles might be key drivers of dropout rates for students living with the burden of poverty. This study examines the impact …

, child poverty remains high as compared to other EU countries, possibly pointing to a weaker role of the public sector in … support also reduces poverty intensity and incidence, although not to a large extent. …

This paper examines the impacts of recent Australian welfare to work reforms for low-income parents of school …-aged children who had been in receipt of Parenting Payment – the main welfare payment for this group – for at least one year … large, statistically significant and positive impacts on the hazard rates for exiting the welfare payment. Two thirds of …

We estimate a model of labour supply and participation in multiple cash and in-kind welfare programmes. The modeling … with each welfare programme we find that inwork cash and in-work in-kind transfers both have large positive labour supply …

High risk of poverty and low employment rates are widespread among low-skilled groups, especially in the case of some … on their promises? If they do reduce poverty and enhance employment, can we further determine their effects on indicators …